Creating OpenStack projects in Keystone

Users can't be created without having a project assigned to them, so these must be created first. For this section, we will create a project for our users, called cookbook.

Getting ready

Ensure that you are logged on to a correctly configured OpenStack client and can access the OpenStack environment as a user with admin privileges.

Refer to Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client, for details of setting up your environment to use OpenStack command-line client.

How to do it…

To create a project in our OpenStack environment, perform the following steps:

1. We start by creating a project called cookbook as follows:

   openstack project create --domain bookstore
       --description "Cookbook Project" cookbook
   

   The command should produce the output similar to this:

   

How it works…

By running the preceding command, we just created a project in our bookstore domain. The syntax is as follows:

openstack project create --domain <domain>
    --description <description> &lt...